Will this work?

Charlie Haughy

Hey, Ive got a new eircom silver modem, the one with 2 ariels on it, and Im wondering if it is possible to use this a router I think their called (the things that allow you plug just a LAN cable into it from like a wall socket, and broadcast the connection over wireless, without the need for a phone line cable). The modem has a phone line socket on it though, and DSL written over a light on it.

If its not, what do I need as this would be very handy in my college apartment. cheers

Pacifico

Yes. You'll need to disable the WAN port on the router though

Charlie Haughy

Oh thats good to know! How do I do that though? is it a physical button to do that, or do I log into the router? Theres a button on the back that says: PBC over it.

This is the modem anyway:

paulm17781

Not sure I follow. That modem / router (the one you have) has wireless on it.

Charlie Haughy

paulm17781 wrote: »

Not sure I follow. That modem / router (the one you have) has wireless on it.

Yes but in my college apartment I dont have a phone line connection, just a slot in the wall to plug a LAN cable into and plug the other end into the laptop, but im wondering is it possible to plug the other end of the lan cable into the modem and use it as wireless, and if so how.

Charlie Haughy

Anyone know or can pick up on what Pacifico said?

Gooch2k4

Oh yes i see now, yes thats fine go ahead, just plug the cable from the wall into a lan port on the router

paulm17781

I see now. Yeah, if you plug on of the LAN ports on the router into the wall you should pick up a signal. You could be better of buying a new wireless router though.

Gooch2k4

paulm17781 wrote: »

I see now. Yeah, if you plug on of the LAN ports on the router into the wall you should pick up a signal. You could be better of buying a new wireless router though.

hardly need to, a decent N router is pricy!

Charlie Haughy

Gooch2k4 wrote: »

Oh yes i see now, yes thats fine go ahead, just plug the cable from the wall into a lan port on the router

I'vetried that now but im getting no signal over wireless, and the light under "DSL" is coloured red (normal is green). What am I doing wrong?

RoyalMarine

to get this right,

in your student apartment, there is an ethernet port on the wall.
you can plug in, and get connected to the internet.

you want to plug a cable into it, and then into the modem and broadcast the same internet wireless?

right?

if yes, then connect the ethernet cable to the wall and to the router. connect it to one of the 4 connections.

then connect another cable from the laptop to another port on the router.

go to your internet web browser be it firefox, internet explorer etc.

go to 192.168.1.254

log into the router page.

Go into Expert Mode and select 'Configure' , then 'Connection'. Turn on bridging. Then 'Advanced' where the first item is the option to disable the DHCP server.

let me know if that works, i use the same setup as your trying to do now, and there are a few more things that might help.

probably best to send me a pm to get my attention quicker.

MunsterCycling

The DSL will never be green as it isn't usilg DSL to connect to the internet. Proceed as above and report back

Charlie Haughy

Cant seem to find where to disable DHCP is, all I can do is click what says "DHCP" and change the IP address and subnet adress I think it is. Here is what the modem menu looks like:

bhickey

Charlie Haughy wrote: »

Cant seem to find where to disable DHCP is, all I can do is click what says "DHCP" and change the IP address and subnet adress I think it is. Here is what the modem menu looks like:

Look harder

Under Configure, there should be something like 'Expert Mode'. Look in there.

Charlie Haughy

I've searched everywhere in it pretty much and cant find anything! This is what comes up when I go into advanced mode and DHCP :

bhickey

Hard to tell but is there not a tickbox or dropdown menu there to disable DHCP? The screen would normally look like this

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Charlie Haughy

No, I cant see one anyway! Did you have a picture or screenshot in your post there as I cant see it.

Charlie Haughy

Oh its ok I got it after all! I had to enable WAN service! Cheers for the help lads.